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Hister Your own search engine Hister is a private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep. It indexes their full contents so you can find information again from the web interface, terminal, or an AI assistant connected through MCP. Try the demo · Download Hister · Read the quickstart · Documentation Quickstart Download the binary for your platform from the latest release, then rename it to hister (hister.exe on Windows).
- ▪Hister Your own search engine Hister is a private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep.
- ▪It indexes their full contents so you can find information again from the web interface, terminal, or an AI assistant connected through MCP.
- ▪Try the demo · Download Hister · Read the quickstart · Documentation Quickstart Download the binary for your platform from the latest release, then rename it to hister (hister.exe on Windows).
Hacker News (Front Page) files mainly under programming. We currently carry 1,766 of its stories. Top-voted stories on Hacker News.
Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/asciimoo/hister |
| Publication time | Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:25:37 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-17T16:43:44.804Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-17T16:43:44.804Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Hister Your own search engine Hister is a private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep. It indexes their full contents so you can find information again from the web interface, terminal, or an AI assistant connected through MCP. Try the demo · Download Hister · Read the quickstart · Documentation Quickstart Download the binary for your platform from the latest release, then rename it to hister (hister.exe on Windows). On Linux or macOS, make it executable: chmod +x hister Start Hister on Linux or macOS: ./hister listen On Windows, run .\hister.exe listen in PowerShell. Keep this terminal open while using Hister. The server must be running to index pages and search them. Open http://127.0.0.1:4433 and install the browser extension for Firefox or Chrome.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.